Post-Gaza war: which future are expecting Palestinians?

The operation Cast Lead is over since 18th January 09 and it was in no case a “dirty war”. Gaza is the stronghold of Hamas, a terrorist organization in which “Charta-Statement” is demanded the complete destruction of Israel, the Jewish State. Gaza is neither Grozny, nor the target of a neo imperialistic project of conquest; and Gaza has never been an “open-air lager”, victim of an humanitarian disaster caused by a ruthless Israel. Gaza is one of the outposts of the radical-islamic ideological combination based on the destruction of culture and values of free democratic Western. Hamas and co. have turned that piece of 140 sq mi land in one of the last tragic news (with Hizb'allah and Iran) of this millennium. An area in which the all day reality is being based on spreading of an unbelievable/absurd hate-doctrine against Jews and the West, a frantic pseudo-religious cult transmitted in schools, in order to build up the martyrdom generations of the future, the “struggle” of terrorists to kill innocent civilians firing daily dozens of rockets and mortar shells for years and a young guy named Gilad Shalit kept captive since 2006 who not even the IRC could visit. This is the truth that has been consciously or not underestimated and concealed by medias, too busy to propose anti-Israeli scoops (sometimes characterized by a latent anti-Semitism) full of ridiculous lies; this is the truth which the filo-arab U.N. never considered worthy of a minimal resolution or at least a verbal admonition.At the very last moment, while the world was expecting the infamous news "Gaza reoccupied by Zionists," Jerusalem wisely decided unilaterally to cease the fire, to build a field hospital to treat civilians wounded in Gaza (in the hospitals of the strip were circulating strange doctors armed with Kalashnikov) and go back to the other side of the border-fence. After about 10 hours and more than a dozen fired rockets, Hamas declare to agree to the proposal of truce. From Teheran come immediately the compliments of Ahmadinejad (!?) and from Riyadh, King Abdullah promises to donate $1 billion to fix the damages caused by the fighting. European Leaders gather to discuss how they can help stop weapons smuggling, even if they are proving their proverbial inefficiency in Lebanon, where Hizb´allah already doubled its weapons arsenal since the last war against Israel. About EU is to note that it keeps on to consider Hizb´allah and Hamas a limited threat to the Middle-East area (particularly to Israel), somehow misunderstanding the real dimensions and operative capabilities of these terrorist movements… I think that now the current question is: why didn´t Israel completely wiped off Hamas?The main target of Jerusalem was primarily to implement a degree of deterrence that could stop the firing of rockets at the Israeli civilian population. Obviously the aim of the operation was to neutralize Hamas, let's hitting its structures (command headquarters, depots of arms, rocket launching ramps, smuggling tunnels). A plan to annihilate definitively the terrorist organization would have meant a real door-to-door issue (with consequently increase of civilian casualties due to the Hamas attitude to infiltrate into civilian structures using them as shield), which could have required an indefinite period of stay of the Israeli army in the Strip, thus contrary to the troops deployment budget and to the wish of the Israeli Government. Besides that, Gaza people should be able at this point to realize that the presence of Hamas, PIJ etc. in the Strip, will not help the achievement of the necessary stability, in order to resume seriously (along with the West Bank) negotiations with Israel, negotiations which Egypt strongly aims to get involved. It´s to remind that the last “Lull in the fighting” was primarily an Egyptian initiative, which was intended to last a long time, but foundered because of continued violations by Hamas and other active terrorist orgs in the Strip. Egypt is at pains to restore its influence in the Arab world and to ensure that the radical Islamic group, which is close to the MB and backed by an „every-day-more-dangerous-and-threatening“ Iran, will once again put its reputation at risk.The annihilation of Hamas remains thus an internal issue of the Arab world in general, and the Arab population of Gaza and West Bank in particular. The post-confrontation events in Gaza should suggest who is the real enemy in the Middle-East and what is at the origin of serious troubles that could become an uncontrollable threat in the near future.
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